Other "evidence"

There's all kinds of problems with this argument. One book (Goldsmith and Owen) argues that, using the same logic, ballpoint pens must be made by aliens, since 1,000,000,000,000 times the size of a ballpoint pen gives exactly 149,600,000 km -- the distance between the Earth and the Sun.

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More importantly, I think, is the insulting implication that the ancient Egyptians were not smart enough to have known how to build the pyramids, and therefore aliens must have done it.

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